Movies often serve as a useful shorthand for how to address some of lifes issues. In the movie Usual Suspects, Keyser Soze is confronted with the fact that his wife and children would be an impediment in dealing with his business competitors. In a way the House GOP finds itself in the same position as Keyser Soze. Our home has been invaded. Our family despoiled. And we are facing a never ending series of ever increasing demands from the criminals who have abused us.

Sometimes the only way out of a dilemma is by clearing the table and starting again from scratch. At midnight on December 21, 2012 the United States will be faced with what is being called the fiscal cliff. In short this cliff is composed of several parts.

1. The payroll tax reduction passed in 2010 will end. 2. The temporary tax rates passed under President Bush will lapse. 3. Obamacares taxes will come due. 4. The Alternative Minimum Tax will expand to many more taxpayers. 5. Extended unemployment benefits will expire. 6. Some $78 billion in federal spending will be sequestered. 7. Medicare doc fix will expire.

There are several sets of sacred cattle here. The GOP is primarily interested in protecting the tax cuts and Defense spending. The Democrats are primarily interested in preserving the social spending and free stuff for their base. This time around the Democrats, in their never ending paean to class warfare, are insisting that the Bush Tax Rates for the wealthiest Americans be allowed to expire. The GOP should not negotiate on this. This will put the GOP in the position of only getting part of what it wants in exchange for giving the Democrats everything they want, in other words this is a textbook case of bipartisanship in Washington.

Obama, Pelosim and reid extended the Bush tax cuts in 2010 right after the TEA party took over. As soon as the ink was dry, they immediately began complaining that the Republicans wouldn’t eliminate the Bush Tax cuts. Does anyone remember this?

Exactly. And there's no downside for the GOP. The election is over and done with; and there's no way that the MSM can stretch a the-GOP-is-to-blame meme out for 2 years. Let our idiotic countrymen see Obama's tax hikes just as the skinny little twerp get inaugurated.

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posted on 11/08/2012 9:50:47 PM PST
by Redcloak
("...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.")

It doesn’t matter who gets blamed. Besides, the President of the US will ultimately be blamed even if the GOP takes a short term hit.

In any case, my bet is Obama will blink. It’s his presidency and his legacy. Is he really ready to push the entire country into recession over a tax hike from 35 to 40%? This hike barely brings any money into the coffers begin with. It’s always been a political gimmick more than an actual policy.

I say Obama will blink and if he doesn’t so be it. It’s time to face this fisscal dissaster head on...right now...today.

What they seem to want most is the tax hike on the rich. I would say: You can have a two year tax hike on the rich which automatically expires and must be shown to have substantially helped the situation before it can be renewed. We don’t want it to be just for revenge. (Be sure to use the word revenge).

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posted on 11/08/2012 10:12:54 PM PST
by Anima Mundi
(You can lead a brain to facts but you can't make it think.)

This is 0bama’s regime. Maybe we should Cloward Piven it until it is paralyzed. we have to rebuild america after all this, and defeating the vile adversary with his own crap will keep the adversary down.

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posted on 11/09/2012 12:40:14 AM PST
by sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)

A few years back, it was a handful of Senate RINOs who stopped up the works; you couldn’t get reforms through without placating the demands of the Snows, Jeffordses, and McCains of that “august” body. There’s no reason now why the House GOP can’t be that roadblock to everything Obama and the Senate RINOs want.

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posted on 11/09/2012 6:45:08 AM PST
by Redcloak
("...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.")

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